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Navigation spiritualized: or, A new compass for seamen consisting of XXXII points of pleasant observations, profitable applications, and serious reflections: all concluded with so many spiritual poems. Whereunto is now added, I. A sober consideration of the sin of drunkenness. II. The harlots face in the Scripture-glass. III. The art of preserving the fruit of the lips. IV. The resurrection of buried mercies and promises. V. The sea-mans catechism. Being an essay toward their much desired reformation from the horrible and detestable [sic] sins of drunkenness, swearing, uncleanness, forgetfulness of mercies, violation of promises, and atheistical contempt of death. Fit to be seriously recommended to their profane relations, whether sea-men or others, by all such as unfeignedly desire their eternal welfare. By John Flavel, minister of the Gospel.Navigation spiritualiz'd: or, A new compass for seamen consisting of XXXII points of pleasant observations, profitable applications, and serious reflections: all concluded with so many spiritual poems. Whereunto is now added, I. A sober consideration of the sin of drunkenness. II. The harlots face in the Scripture-glass. III. The art of preserving the fruit of the lips. IV. The resurrection of buried mercies and promises. V. The sea-mans catechism. Being an essay toward their much desir'd reformation from the horrible and destable [sic] sins of drunkenness, swearing, uncleanness, forgetfulness of mercies, violation of promises, and atheistical contempt of death. Fit to be seriously recommmended to their profane relations, whether sea-men or others, by all such as unfeignedly desire their eternal welfare. By John Flavel, minister of the Gospel.
London: printed for M. Fabian, 1698
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A New Compass for Sea-Men: OR, Navigation Spiritualiz'd. › Chapter 3 › APPLICATION.
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APPLICATION.
Thus doth the heart of Man naturally swarm and abound with strange and monstrous lusts and abominations, Rom. 1. 29, 30, 31, Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity, whisperers, back-biters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to Parents, without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful. O what ⟨p. 13⟩a swarm is here! and yet there are multitudes more, in the depths of the heart! And it is no wonder, considering that with this Nature, we received the spawn of the blackest and vilest abominations. This original lust is productive to them all, Jam. 1. 14. 15. Which lust, though it be in every Man numerically, different from that of others, yet it is one and the same specifically, for sort and kind, in all the Children of Adam: even as the reasonable Soul, though every Man hath his own Soul, viz a Soul individually distinct from another Man's, yet is it the same for kind in all men. So that whatever abominations are in the hearts and lives of the vilest Sodomites, and most profligate Wretches under Heaven; there is the same matter in thy heart out of which they were shaped and formed. In the depths of the heart they are conceived, and thence they crawl out of the eyes, hands, lips, and all the members, Mat. 15. 18. 19. Those things (saith Christ) which proceed out of the mouth, come forth from the heart, and defile a man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false-witness, blasphemies: Even such Monsters, as would make a gracious heart tremble to behold. What are my Lusts, (saith Fuller's Medone) but so many Toads spitting of Venom, tations, p 11. and spawning of Poison; croaking in my Judgment, creeping in my Will, and crawling into my Affections? The Apostle in